Cultural Innovations in 1920s America
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7.2 • Read and complete the 7.2 SG and charts
7-2 Study Guide Answers • What did American artists and writers in the 1920s explore? What it meant to be a modern and they searched for meaning in a modern world. • What does "Bohemian" mean in relation to artists, writers, and musicians? Aritistic and unconventional • Where did artists go to find centers of creativity, enlightenment, and freedom? Manhattan’s Greenwich Village & Chicago’s Southside • Whose paintings conveyed a modern sense of disenchantment and isolation? Edward Hopper
7-2 Study Guide Answers • What was Carl Sandburg's main theme, and how did he express it? Glorification of the midwest expressed through common speech • What writer expressed women's equality and praised a life intensely lived? Edna St. Vincent Millay • Who were three poets who used clear, concise images to express moments in time? Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell & William Carlos Williams
7-2 Study Guide Answers • How did T.S. Eliot describe the negative effects of modernism? As a world filled with empty dreams and “hollow men” • What did Eugene O'Neill's work dramatize? Realistic characters & situations, sometimes tragic • How was John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy innovative? It combined fiction, biography, news headlines and prose. • What was the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby? The emptiness & superficiality of much of modern society.
On the Back of 7-2 Study Guide complete the following for poets and writers p. 420
7-2 Study Guide Answers • With what did the economic prosperity of the 1920s provide many Americans? More leisure time & more spending money, which they devoted to making their lives more enjoyable • What did radio and motion pictures make more popular? Sports, such as baseball & boxing • When was the first "talking" picture produced, and what was it? The Jazz Singer - 1927 • When was one of the first radio broadcasts in history, and what was it? In 1920 the news of the landslide victory of Warren G. Harding in the Presidential election